“It was all about who would be allowed to hang out at the Starbucks downtown,” Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark told Reuters. “The Vagos brazenly came in and tried to cement their presence. It was a pretty strong play on their part to establish themselves as the premiere club.”

Clark added: “Only in Santa Cruz would you have biker wars over who’s going to control pumpkin spice lattes.”

Then there’s this lovely item from the Starbucks gossip blog about a “big fan of Starbucks” who has a pretty unsavory goal that might make you think twice about using a restroom at New York cafes. I’ll let you find out about that one for yourself: “Meet the grossest Starbucks customer in NYC.”

Chalk it up to growing pains for Seattle-based Starbucks. When a company has a cafe on every corner (hyperbole intended), this kind of stuff becomes a lot more likely.